HISTORICAL SKETCH OF THE EAST POINT BAPTIST CHURCH

HON. J. FREDERICK FRASER

One of Nova Scotia‘s outstanding business men, Hon. J. Fred Fras« er of Halifax, N. 5., who became a minister without portfolio in the Nova Scotia government in 1925, was on October 9, 1931, elevated to the important cabinet post of provincial secretary and treasurer. Mr. Fraser has occupied the post of Chairman of the Nova Scotia Power Commission since 1925. Under his direction the work of the power Com- mission has involved, during the past few years, tremendous hydro de- velopments.

Mr. Fraser‘s business interests are wide and diversified. He is a member of the Halifax firm of Davis and Fraser. He is president and managing director of the I). E. I. Cold Storage Company. He has tak- en a promineit part in the banking business. and is a director of the Bank of Nova Scotia. the Nova Scotia Loan and Building Society, the NIutual Life Assurance Co. of Canada. He is a Governor of Acadia University and a director of the Nova Scotia School for the Blind. and a deacon in the First Baptist Church, Halifax.

Hon. IVIr. Fraser was born in Prince Edward Island in 1871; h: is 2= son of Robert Fraser and Elizabeth Stewart of North Lake. He re ceived his education in the district school near his fathers home and at IVIiller‘s Business College, Charlottetown. In 1899 he married Miss Car- rie M. Soulis of Saint John. New Brunswick. Six children were born of this marriage.

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IN MEMORY OF CAPTAIN \VII.I.IAl\/I IVIt-VANE

Captain William IVIcVane was a quiet. retiring man who impressed tl.ose who had the privileg: of his acquaintance. that they were in the presence of a remarkable personality. He was converted in the great revival at East point, 1874. He was then an old man. H: felt that he had been a great sinner, but he was gloriously saved. He lived alone on the next farm east of James Young‘s place, which I was then manag ing. I frequently went over in the evening to char with him. One could imagine what a school of the prophets was like in hearing this Sag: ex— pound the Scriptures. While his conversion illuminated the Bible For l‘im, he must have read it much before his convcrsion. He approached it with such reverence that the tone of his voice and the overflow of his

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